Most "privacy-friendly" apps still phone home. A backend for accounts. An analytics SDK "to improve the product." A crash reporter that quietly ships context.
I built TetherShot the boring way: there's nothing to phone home to.
It's a tiny macOS menu-bar app that captures pixel-perfect iPhone screenshots (1179x2556 native) straight into a folder you choose, plus your clipboard.
The entire data flow:
- iPhone → Mac over USB (native AVFoundation) or local Wi-Fi (Apple's RemoteXPC tunnel)
- Screenshot → folder on your disk
- That's it. No third hop.
What's deliberately missing:
- No account or login
- No analytics or telemetry
- No servers — the internet is never in the loop
npm install -g tethershot
tethershot install
Because there's no backend, there's no breach surface, no data to subpoena, nothing to "accidentally log." Privacy stops being a promise in a TOS and becomes a property of the architecture.
And it's MIT open source, so "trust me" isn't required — you can read every line.
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